Views of the Cordilleras and monuments of the indigenous peoples of the Americas : a critical edition by Alexander von Humboldt(
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In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon.
But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration
throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by von Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much
of today's knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to von Humboldt's numerous records
of these expeditions. One of these accounts, Views of the Cordi

Political essay on the island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt(
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The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas at the turn of the eighteenth to
the nineteenth century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this
time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba is a physical
and cultural study of the island nation. In it, Humboldt denounces colonial slavery on both moral and economic grounds and
stresses the vital importance of improving intercultural relations throughout the Americas

TransArea : a literary history of globalization by Ottmar Ette(
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2016
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"Ottmar Ette's TransArea proceeds from the thesis that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but rather, a process of
long duration that may be divided into four main phases of accelerated globalization. These phases connect our present, across
the world's widely divergent modern eras, to the period of early modern history. Ette demonstrates how the literatures of
the world make possible a tangible perception of that which constitutes Life, both of our planet and on our planet, which
may only be understood through the application of multiple logics. There is no substitute for the knowledge of literature:
it is the knowledge of life, from life. This English translation will be of great interest to English-speaking scholars in
the fields of Global and Area Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, and many more."--

Writing-between-worlds : transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode by Ottmar Ette(
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2016
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Preface: What does literature know? -- Transit -- Mobile interworlds: toward transareal (literary) scholarship -- Figurations:
Odysseus and the angel of history: the vectoral imagination of Shoa literature -- Relations: Caribbean islandworlds: about
the fractal geometry of the literary island -- Incubations: A national literature without a fixed abode? fictions and frictions
in twentieth-century Cuban literature -- Translations: In others' words: literary translation as writing-between-worlds --
Oscillations: Writing-other(wise) between worlds: about translingual writing in contemporary german-speaking literature --
Confrontations: The transareal worlds of the Arabamericas: chronicle of a clash foretold -- In(tro)spections: Voyages into
the realm of the dead: border experiences of a literature after migration -- Configurations. Literature as knowledge-for-living,
literary scholarship as science-for-living

Wissensformen und Wissensnormen des ZusammenLebens : Literatur - Kultur - Geschichte - Medien by Ottmar Ette(
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2012
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German
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45 WorldCat member
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The purpose of the essays collected in this volume is to advance the discussion about "life knowledge" (Lebenswissen) and
to point the way toward new horizons for current and future thinking and action in literary and cultural studies. This broad
research field encompasses a wide range of elements: European, non-European, philological, and philosophical approaches; perspectives
native to media history, narrative theory, and the aesthetics of literature; as well as transcultural and transdisciplinary
methods. Clearly, "life knowledge" is a field of research whose forms and norms of knowledge remain to be more precisely elucidated.
This volume is dedicated to meeting this intellectual challenge